A good example of how everything is connected is the story Point fatal.
When Adam Neels (read Neal Adams, an American
comics artist) makes a sphere burst other spheres may burst as
well. Andreas doesn't explain exactly what occult relationship
exists between the spheres, but does make Neels explain his
invention: "One places a sphere between the rings... places
the needles against the sphere... and spins the flying
sphere twice... notice the pattern of lines that is
drawn... () In all this mixup of crossing lines there is always
one point where five lines cross. It requires only a light
pressure to..." and the sphere bursts.
At first one is inclined to think that the sphere that was
placed in the device has gone weak by all the markings on its
surface. But that doesn't explain the synchronous exploding of
other spheres of the same volume that are positioned elsewhere.
We must thus presume that Neels has a much more fascinating
theory: every sphere has a weak spot, and with his device he is
able to determine this spot. The bursting of all kinds of spheres
proves his theory, and he is proud of it.
To the magician Rork it is a small leap of thought to then
imagine the earth's sphere, and a nut that discovers that fatal
point on the earth's surface. "All right, agreed" says
Neels, "that has occured to me... but who would be crazy
enough to saw through the branch he is sitting on?"
Rork: "Exactly, a nut... or... yes, indeed, a nut..."
Neels: "O, You always exaggerate! You spoil my beautiful
invention."
Rork holds something back, but we can guess his thoughts: the
same way Neels can burst the spheres in his laboratory, an alien
power, to whom the earth is a mere toy ball, can burst the earth.
What happens to us on a small scale (microcosmos) can happen
elsewhere on a large scale (macrocosmos).
A minute later the events start to follow up rapidly as the
villagers, that have had some hindrance of the side-effects of
Neels' experiments, decide to destroy Neels' cabin to end it all.
At that moment Neels has to admit that he has found the fatal
point already, and has build his cabin on top of it. Almost
immediately a supernatural force lowers "an enormous mass".
Lucky for us Neels has made a mistake in his calculations.
Understandably, since he is unable to build a device of suitable
size for thís calculation.

We then return to Andreas' precision. At the moment Rork
reaches Neels cabin (2nd page) we can see a kind of ivy growing
above it. If we watch really carefully we can even see a cable
and a hook in it. This is a detail we probably won't notice, but
it returns at the 6th page. The page, in which Neels explains to
have build his cabin on top of the fatal point, offers a top
view (bird perspective) on the cabin and the people running
towards it.We can see clearly that the cabin has been hung up
with these cables between two trees. Alongside these cables the
ivy curls. Thus Neels was afraid the weight of his cabin alone
could mean an overload of pressure to the earth's surface.
The bird perspective through which we see the cabin is
therefore not only very pretty, but very functional as well. And
it certainly is not the only thing that is extremely effective:
when at the same page the mass in the form of a giant needle
descends from the sky, Andreas uses a picture that spans the full
height of the page. For the impression of the needle in the
earth's crest he chooses a large picture, to do justice to the
giant proportions of the needle. For the picture in which Rork
and Neels conclude that "somewhere up there () there is a
power that is after our planet" Andreas takes a frog's
perspective to also show the starry sky above. One star is
blue...the color of the needle! Andreas uses more techniques very
functionally to tell his stories. For example his use of color,
or the composition of the pages.

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Images and text

Every strip is told with texts and images. Text and images
each have their own properies, though. Andreas makes use of that.
He for example opposes text and images occasionally. The text at
the beginning of Point fatal reads: "Its a
sombre, savage forest. The people of the village rarely dare to
go there..." The image indeed shows us that sombre, dark
forest, yet at the same time a cabin, and the shadow of a man
falling on a treetrunk. The image contradicts the text, more or
less, and prepares us for the next picture, in which we learn
that the old Neels lives in the cabin, and we see that the shadow
belongs to Rork, who is approaching the cabin.